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Addicts don’t choose to be that way

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Thursday February 13, 2014 5:13 AM

Well, blow me over with a feather. How is it possible that anyone still believes that addiction
is a choice and a sign of weakness (“Hoffman tribute sends wrong message,” Tuesday letter from
David C. Elting)?

Elting needs to educate himself on the nature of addiction before he starts making judgments.
Science has proved that alcoholics and addicts have a brain problem, not a behavioral issue.

To think that people choose to destroy themselves due to weakness is wrong.